Questions on your mind? Post & maybe get answers

My latest question:

Is there someplace I can go to find answers to MS Word questions? For example, I copied a few lines from one document to another, and lo and behold–the new copy is in a light grey box. And I can’t get out of it, maybe because I can’t find the code to delete it (the way I always could in WordPerfect). So now everything I add to that document is going to be in that stupid light grey box. Grrrr^&%#@(&!

What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen whoosh?

…and that I didn’t mention London at any point…

Small towns are where the sight lines would most often be too restricted for this to be safe. And are also where traffic flow is less of a concern. Basically, it would have a miniscule effect on congestion, for a considerable cost of assessing the safety or otherwise of every one of thousands of junctions, and signing them appropriately.

For starters, did you RTFM?

My initial suggestion would be to select everything that’s formatted as light gray (make sure to include the closing paragraph mark), and change the style to “Normal”. That should reset it, provided you haven’t accidentally changed the definition of the Normal style. You can then reformat it to your heart’s content.

Graham crackers.

I’ve had a few wheat crackers that I find rather sweet tasting. Carrs is a brand that springs to mind. Though I wouldn’t dip them in a glass of milk, they’re not quite savory either.

If I don’t get an answer here I’m going to general questions…How can animals eat raw meat without getting sick?

My dictionary defines a Cookie as a small flat sweet cake and a Cracker as a thin, crisp flatbread. Ones a cake, the other’s a bread. Next mystery?

By the way, what’s the difference between a cake and a bread? :smack:

Blue cheeses. Enjoy browsing.

My questions:

  1. What’s the frequency, Kenneth?
  2. Is it safe?
  3. Why is a raven like a writing desk?

The question should be the other way around - why do humans need to eat cooked meat?

Fire was discovered, and it provided a way to increase the transition of energy from dead prey to live human. (Yeah, it’s crude, on a scientific level) Fire and cooking does many of the things that enzymes and the like would otherise be needed for. So by cooking things, we’re using external energy from the fuel to do some of the digestion that other animals would do themselves, using their own food energy.

Once humans were accustomed to eating cooked meat, there was no reason for their bodies to retain the unused ability to, for example, ward off bugs from a raw chicken carcass. So when we do come across some bugs, we call it food poisoning.

What is the answer to this question?

A DUCK!

amazing how that answers so many questions so well

one of these days I’ll have to find a new schtick, but until then…

Animal crackers.

In return, why is a cook’s bedpan like an overwound clock?

Did your Ma come out of the kitchen with a loaf of pumpernickel that had candles stuffed in it while the family sang to you?

Do you put ham and swiss between two pieces of german chocolate?

Answer: Breads is for sammitches and toast. Cakes is for decorating and dessertitude.

Goo.

Antonia.
Only you and I truly understand these answers. :smiley:
*Yes, I’m aware that there is a GQ Forum. But somehow I thought G. Questions were more…serious. I dunno. And I didn’t want to post a bunch of separate threads. This is a catch-all.

There’s an answer for you.

Was Jiminy Cricket of Pinocchio fame consciously named as a euphemism for Jesus Christ, or did that come later?

According to the definition of jiminy on [http://www.etymonline.com/j1etym.htm](this page,) the phrase jiminy cricket* originated as a euphemism for Jesus Christ, and has been around since at least 1848.

Whoops, screwed up the coding. Let’s hope this link leads to the correct page.